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Religions of late antiquity in practice / Richard Valantasis, editor.

Contributor(s): Valantasis, Richard, 1946-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton readings in religions: Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: xvi, 511 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0691057516 (pbk. : alk paper); 9780691057514 (pbk. : alk paper)Subject(s): Religions -- History | Europe -- Religion | Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600DDC classification: 200/.9/015 LOC classification: BL690 | .R46 2000Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Richard Valantasis -- The First Sahidic Life of Pachomius / James E. Goehring -- Philostratus of Athens, Life of Apollonius of Tyana / Megan H. Williams -- Porphyry, On the life of Plotinus and the order of his books / Richard Valantasis -- Evagrius Ponticus on prayer and anger / Columbia Stewart -- Pseudo-Athanasius, Discourse on salvation to a virgin / Teresa M. Shaw -- Basil of Caesarea, the "Prooemium" of the Regulae fusius tractatae / Lawrence J. Altepeter -- Sermons of Columbanus / Arthur G. Holder -- Manichaean asceticism / Jason David BeDuhn -- Talmudic texts and Jewish social life / Daniel Boyarin -- Julian "the apostate," Against the Galileans / Elizabeth Geraldine Burr -- A thriving native cult in the fifth century and its demise under Coptic monks / David Frankfurter -- The Cologne Mani Codex / Ellen Bradshaw Aitken -- Tales of holy fools / Derek Krueger -- Vision for the city: Nisibis in Ephrem's Hymns on Nicomedia / David Bundy -- Acts of Thomas: scene one / David G. Hunter -- An anonymous letter to a woman named Susanna / Maureen A. Tilley -- A plea to a local god for a husband's attentions / David Frankfurter -- Bishop Avitus of Vienne to his excellency Ansmundus / Maureen A. Tilley -- Chrysostom's catecheses: a hermeneutic of social institutions / Arthur B. Shippee -- John Chrysostom, sermons on city life / Blake Leyerle -- Laws on religion from the Theodosian and Justinianic codes / Matthew C. Mirow and Kathleen A. Kelley -- The Acts of the Council of Aquileia (381 C.E.) / Kenneth B. Steinhauser -- Canons of the Council in Trullo (692 C.E.) / James C. Skedros -- The Mithras Liturgy and Sepher Ha-Razim / Kimberly B. Stratton --
Manichaean ritual / Jason David BeDuhn -- The Seal of the Merkavah / Michael D. Swartz -- Anonymous Spanish correspondence; or the letter of the "she-ass" / Virginia Burns and Tracy Keefer -- Amuletic invocations of Christ for health and fortune / David Frankfurter -- The hymns of Ambrose / Carl P.E. Springer -- Hymns to Mary, the mother of God, the Theotokos / Vasiliki Limberis -- Manichaean hymnody / Jason David BeDuhn -- An Isis aretalogy from Kyme in Asia Minor, first century B.C.E. / Gail Corrington Streete -- The passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity / Maureen A. Tilley -- The martyrs of Lyons / Frederick W. Weidmann -- The martyrdom of Habbib the deacon / Robert Doran -- 4 Maccabees / Clayton N. Jefford -- Gregory Nazianzen, homily on the nativity of Christ / Nonna Verna Harrison -- Texts on iconoclasm: John of Damascus and the Council of Hiereia / David Vila -- Asterius of Amasea Ekphrasis on the holy martyr Euphemia / Elizabeth A. Castelli -- Christian oracle shrines / David Frankfurter -- Popular religious practices in fifth-century Egypt / David Frankfurter -- The zenith and destruction of a native Egyptian oracle in 359 C.E. / David Frankfurter -- Manichaean theology / Jason David BeDuhn -- Iamblichus, de Mysteriis, book I, the de Mysteriis / Peter T. Struck.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Richard Valantasis -- The First Sahidic Life of Pachomius / James E. Goehring -- Philostratus of Athens, Life of Apollonius of Tyana / Megan H. Williams -- Porphyry, On the life of Plotinus and the order of his books / Richard Valantasis -- Evagrius Ponticus on prayer and anger / Columbia Stewart -- Pseudo-Athanasius, Discourse on salvation to a virgin / Teresa M. Shaw -- Basil of Caesarea, the "Prooemium" of the Regulae fusius tractatae / Lawrence J. Altepeter -- Sermons of Columbanus / Arthur G. Holder -- Manichaean asceticism / Jason David BeDuhn -- Talmudic texts and Jewish social life / Daniel Boyarin -- Julian "the apostate," Against the Galileans / Elizabeth Geraldine Burr -- A thriving native cult in the fifth century and its demise under Coptic monks / David Frankfurter -- The Cologne Mani Codex / Ellen Bradshaw Aitken -- Tales of holy fools / Derek Krueger -- Vision for the city: Nisibis in Ephrem's Hymns on Nicomedia / David Bundy -- Acts of Thomas: scene one / David G. Hunter -- An anonymous letter to a woman named Susanna / Maureen A. Tilley -- A plea to a local god for a husband's attentions / David Frankfurter -- Bishop Avitus of Vienne to his excellency Ansmundus / Maureen A. Tilley -- Chrysostom's catecheses: a hermeneutic of social institutions / Arthur B. Shippee -- John Chrysostom, sermons on city life / Blake Leyerle -- Laws on religion from the Theodosian and Justinianic codes / Matthew C. Mirow and Kathleen A. Kelley -- The Acts of the Council of Aquileia (381 C.E.) / Kenneth B. Steinhauser -- Canons of the Council in Trullo (692 C.E.) / James C. Skedros -- The Mithras Liturgy and Sepher Ha-Razim / Kimberly B. Stratton --

Manichaean ritual / Jason David BeDuhn -- The Seal of the Merkavah / Michael D. Swartz -- Anonymous Spanish correspondence; or the letter of the "she-ass" / Virginia Burns and Tracy Keefer -- Amuletic invocations of Christ for health and fortune / David Frankfurter -- The hymns of Ambrose / Carl P.E. Springer -- Hymns to Mary, the mother of God, the Theotokos / Vasiliki Limberis -- Manichaean hymnody / Jason David BeDuhn -- An Isis aretalogy from Kyme in Asia Minor, first century B.C.E. / Gail Corrington Streete -- The passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity / Maureen A. Tilley -- The martyrs of Lyons / Frederick W. Weidmann -- The martyrdom of Habbib the deacon / Robert Doran -- 4 Maccabees / Clayton N. Jefford -- Gregory Nazianzen, homily on the nativity of Christ / Nonna Verna Harrison -- Texts on iconoclasm: John of Damascus and the Council of Hiereia / David Vila -- Asterius of Amasea Ekphrasis on the holy martyr Euphemia / Elizabeth A. Castelli -- Christian oracle shrines / David Frankfurter -- Popular religious practices in fifth-century Egypt / David Frankfurter -- The zenith and destruction of a native Egyptian oracle in 359 C.E. / David Frankfurter -- Manichaean theology / Jason David BeDuhn -- Iamblichus, de Mysteriis, book I, the de Mysteriis / Peter T. Struck.

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